Sains -- A group of Japanese researchers confirmed the presence of oxygen at the surface of the Moon. The presence of oxygen on the Moon believed to have existed since 2.4 billion years ago since the newly formed Earth life.
The research team led by astrophysicist Kentaro Terada of Osaka University found evidence of oxygen trip Earth towards the Moon after the lunar orbit examined data collected belongs to the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft.
Terada and his team realize every time the spacecraft crossed the orbit of the Moon on the Earth plasma area, the empty space between the Earth and the Moon, there are high levels of oxygen particles are trapped. Kaguya plasma detector then collect the oxygen.
Uniquely, the oxygen as it was only found when Kaguya plasma across an area of the Earth. Terada and colleagues have come to believe and conclude that oxygen is indeed coming from the Earth.
Alleged oxygen travels from Earth to the Moon is already long enough. Only a team of researchers are not so sure because there is the possibility of it coming from a storm particles from the Sun that keeps crashing toward Earth and the Moon.
But the results of a study published in Nature Astronomy is called the Earth's magnetic tail area unaffordable sun beam bursts of particles intervene to prevent oxygen trip Earth to the Moon.
These findings open the possibility if most of the Moon's surface, which is technically only boulders die, has the potential for life.
"Oxygen biogenic has been contaminating the surface of the Moon," said Terada told The Verge, Monday (30/1).
Chances of that happening because oxygen leaking Earth to the Moon was equally derived from biological processes such as photosynthesis.
Thanks to these findings, the researchers believe that the ions with high levels of it can penetrate the surface layer of the Moon. It also explains the types of oxygen found in Moon rocks similar to the oxygen in the Earth's ozone layer.
The moon itself thought to have formed from the collision of Earth with a Mars-sized celestial objects four billion years ago. In a way, the Earth and Moon have interplay as sea wave height at the Moon is normally within 386 thousand kilometers.
"Earth and Moon had evolved together not only physically but also chemically," said Terada.
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